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how do I start schooltool 1.5 after installing it from ppa?

Asked by Zhang Weiwu

Hello. I followed instruction on http://book.schooltool.org/htmlhelp/install.html

and managed to install python-schooltool-1.5 on Ubuntu Maverick by using the package repository ppa:schooltool-owners/ppa.

and, what next?

The instruction on the book http://book.schooltool.org/htmlhelp/setup-initial.html says:
    You can start and stop the process manually if you’d like:

    $ sudo service schooltool-2009 stop
    $ sudo service schooltool-2009 start

This is what I tried:

yuhailan@yuhailan-laptop:~$ sudo service python-schooltool start
python-schooltool: unrecognized service
yuhailan@yuhailan-laptop:~$ sudo service schooltool start
schooltool: unrecognized service
yuhailan@yuhailan-laptop:~$ sudo service schooltool-2009 start
schooltool-2009: unrecognized service
yuhailan@yuhailan-laptop:~$ sudo service schooltool-2010 start
schooltool-2010: unrecognized service

I have checked to verify no process is listening on 7080, the default tcp port for schooltool:

yuhailan@yuhailan-laptop:~$ netstat -tl
激活Internet连接 (仅服务器)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:ssmtp *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdoma:ipp *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:3128 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:34170 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:pop3s *:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh [::]:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 yuhailan-laptop:ipp [::]:* LISTEN

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Justas Sadzevičius (justas.sadzevicius) said : 		#1

Ouch.

Can you please try the alternative way for now?
$ sudo /etc/init.d/schooltool-2009 stop
$ sudo /etc/init.d/schooltool-2009 start

Thanks for testing!

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Zhang Weiwu (zhangweiwu) said : 		#2

yuhailan@yuhailan-laptop:~$ LANGUAGE=en_US:en ls /etc/init.d/sch*
ls: cannot access /etc/init.d/sch*: No such file or directory
yuhailan@yuhailan-laptop:~$ LANGUAGE=en_US:en aptitude show python-schooltool
Package: python-schooltool
New: yes
State: installed
...

Note that the "apt-get install python-schooltool" installation process did not give any error message.

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Gediminas Paulauskas (menesis) said : 		#3

Package that contains the server scripts is named "schooltool-2009". python-schooltool contains only libraries. As the documentation says, you have to

sudo apt-get install schooltool-2009

The server will be started automatically and will be running on http://localhost:7080.

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Zhang Weiwu (zhangweiwu) said : 		#4

Thank you very much for the input.

I forgot to mention that the computer, the newly installed Ubuntu 10.10 and school tool surve the solo purpose of testing 1.5, with nothing else runing on it. I believe schooltool-2009 is of 1.4, thus defeating the purpose of setting up this testbed:) Is there a way I keep 1.5 and start it?

Thanks!

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Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman) said : 		#5

It is a little confusing but yes schooltool-2009 is 1.5 on Maverick. We're trying to make this more clear in the descriptions and phasing out the year designations which, at this point, don't mean anything.

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Zhang Weiwu (zhangweiwu) said : 		#6

It is kind of wired to me because not only the 2009 in "schooltool-2009" does not have a clear meaning, but we also have this:

$ LANGUAGE=en_US:en aptitude show schooltool-2009
Package: schooltool-2009
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.0.3

Note that version said to be 1.0.3.

More confusing the version is not mentioned in "about" page, i.e.
http://localhost:7080/@@about.html

The version number is, indeed, 1.5, as mentioned on the page footer, but people are accustomed to find version number in "about".

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Gediminas Paulauskas (menesis) said : 		#7

We know, there is a bug asking to remove 2009 from package name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/schooltool/+bug/562358